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Exploiting state encoding for invariant generation in induction-based property checking

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Markus Wedler,

Dominik Stoffel,

Wolfgang KunzAuthors Info & Claims

ASP-DAC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

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Published: 27 January 2004 Publication History

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This paper focuses on checking safety properties for sequential circuits specified on the RT-level. We study how different state encodings can be used to create a gate-level representation of the circuit that facilitates the computation of effective invariants for induction-based property checking. Our experiments show the strong impact of state encoding on the efficiency of the induction process.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1998496.1998521
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1517424.1517426

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Kühne UBeyer SBormann JBarstow JBloem RSharygina N(2010)Automated formal verification of processors based on architectural modelsProceedings of the 2010 Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design10.5555/1998496.1998521(129-136)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1998496.1998521
Case MMishchenko ABrayton RBaumgartner JMony H(2008)Invariant-strengthened elimination of dependent state elementsProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design10.5555/1517424.1517426(1-9)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1517424.1517426

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